Accelerating light beams along arbitrary convex trajectories

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 21, 2011, Pages

  Greenfield, Elad ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a   Walasik, Wiktor ^a,b   Raz, Oren ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHE THEORY; CROSS SECTION; GENERAL METHOD; LIGHT BEAM; OPTICAL BEAMS;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 79960635993     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.213902     Document Type: Article

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